Captain Matt Caulfield’s understrength company labored through the brush and scrub growth of an […]
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General Henry H. ‘Hap’ Arnold: Architect of America’s Air Force
Under General Henry H. ‘Hap’ Arnold, America’s air arm became the largest and most potent air force in history.
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Greatest Unsung American General of World War I
John J. Pershing directed the troops, but Peyton C. March ensured they were amply supplied to fight during World War I.
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Field Marshall Erwin Rommel’s Defense of Normandy During World War II
During World War II, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel’s decision to stop the Allied invasion of France at the water’s edge was contrary to the rule book and anathema to his more tradition-bound contemporaries.
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1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry in the Battle of Hoa Hoi
The 9th Cavalry’s Blue Team had found the NVA’s 18th Regiment. Now it was up to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry, to ‘fix’ them and finish them off.
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1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts
In an 1861 battle with the French, the Vietnamese showed some of the fighting tenacity they would later display in places like Dien Bien Phu and Hue during the 20th century.
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Revenge: A Sioux Uprising Leads to Bloody Massacre at Spirit Lake
With most of her family and neighbors at the northern Iowa settlement wiped out, Abbie Gardner clung to life at the mercy of Dakota Chief Inkpaduta and his unremorseful band.
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Sioux Chief Gall
Soldiers gave the Hunkpapa leader his nickname because he was a dashing warrior who effectively teamed up with Sitting Bull in the 1870s. But after his surrender in 1881, Gall stood up for cooperation and peace at Standing Rock.
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Battling Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Panzers in Normandy’s Hedgerows
When he hurled the elite Panzer Lehr division at GIs approaching St. Lô in July 1944, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel discovered that his opponents could use the Norman hedgerows as effectively as his own men could.
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The Barons’ Wars: Battle of Lewes
On May 14, 1264, King Henry III confronted Simon de Montfort and his noblemen, but it was the impetuous Prince Edward who decided the outcome of the battle.